Global Media and Digital Cultures (Online)

The MA Global Media and Digital Cultures (Online) offers a bold, non-Western perspective on how media and digital communication shape globalisation, politics, and culture.

With a focus on Asia, Africa, the Middle East and their diasporas, the programme tackles urgent debates about digital power, participation, and inequality in contemporary societies. Blending critical theory with grounded, interdisciplinary research, it challenges both utopian and dystopian narratives of digital transformation.

You will explore how power and resistance operate in an increasingly mediated world, examining exclusion, marginalisation, and grassroots empowerment. Graduates leave with advanced critical and research skills to interrogate one of the defining forces of our time.

Studying at SOAS

SOAS is ranked among the top 20 in the UK for Communication and Media Studies, and is 7th in the UK for Academic Reputation in the field (QS World University Rankings 2026). Gain a global perspective unlike any other from a world-renowned university based in the heart of London.

Study Tours

All postgraduate students can take part in our Study Tours and explore the world. Destinations include New Delhi, Lahore, Seoul, Luang Prabang, Almaty, Bishkek, Kigali, Johannesburg, and Doha. For more information, see our Study Tours page.